NEWS REPORTMain Features

STRUCTURE•HEADLINE: short and eye catching.

•INTRUDUCTION: summary of the event▫Time▫Place▫People

•MAINBODY: describe event.

•CONCLUSION: ▫People’s comments▫Future actions

MAIN FEATURES

•LANGUAGE: ▫Past tenses▫Passive voive▫Reporting verbs

•OBJECTIVE: NO personal comments or feelings

HEADLINESTenses:

▫Recent events: present simple Norway Killer Claims He 'Had English Mentor‘

▫Future events: TO-infinitive Pakistan To Deport Bin Laden Family

▫Past event: simple past Sleepy Pilot Forced Plane Into Sudden Dive

HEADLINES• Use:

▫passive voice Newborn Boy Snatched After Mum Shot And Killed

▫Abbreviations (UK, USA, UNESCO…)

• DON’T use:▫Stops, commas, articles, pronouns , auxiliary

verbs, words understood from context

▫Verb “to Be” in passive to describe past event Emergency Landing At Gatwick: 15 Injured

Spain VS Argentina. The YPF issue•  Argentina’s President: Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Last Monday

Argetina nationalized part of oil firm YPF (YPF is currently under the control of Spain's Repsol oil company).

• Argentina has some of the world's largest reserves of oil and gas.• In November last year, YPF, which was privatised in 1993, announced a

major find of one billion barrels of oil.• The authorities in Argentina accused YPF of not investing enough to

increase the output from its oil fields. The firm denies it.• Ratings agency Moody's cut the oil firm's debt rating to B3 from Ba3,

saying further downgrades were possible.• Jose Manuel Soria has said:” we are considering taking some action”• Antonio Brufau said “this action will not remain unpunished and we want

a compensation”

World Book Day 2013• Event: Culture professionals contribute to breaking illiteracy.• Date: Tuesday, 23rd April 2013 • Time: Throughout the year. • Place: in The UK (At Beanstalk).• Other:

▫ Reading enables people to experience other worlds.▫ The ability to write and read helps us to understand our own

identities.▫ Beanstalk Volunteers give support to children who have fallen

behind with their reading. ▫ World Book Day is an occasion to celebrate the power of

storytelling, to inspire a love of reading.▫ Result: These commitments made by school visitors and

reading helpers have to continue developing as they are causing effects on children’s abilities.

• Charlie Higson’s (children’s author) comments: This is “a golden age of children’s writing”.